32+ Ernest Hemingway Six Toed Cats Pictures. Six toes and nine lives! Sailors considered the cats lucky and often brought polydactyls along for long sea voyages.

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He was a pulitzer and nobel prize winner. Famous author ernest hemingway was no exception to the rule. Normally, cats have five front toes but some have six and apparently, these were the ones ernest hemingway loved ever since he was give one by a ship's captain.

The new ordinance, approved tuesday, reads in part, the cats reside on the property just as the cats did in the time of hemingway himself.

Despite the image of macho, he loved his love sponge in his purr factories. I wandered the gracious rooms, walked through their bedroom, snooped in their bathroom and cooed at lolling cats before heading to hemingway's. The scene in which most of his famous writings were born is this decorated residence is now the happy home to about 50 cats, many of which are polydactyl, or have six toes. Among his works such as the sun also.